PowerMapper Desktop version history
Our version numbers consists of 4 parts: Compat.Release.Build.Patch
- Compat only changes if compatibility is affected (e.g. when the file format changes)
- Release is the major version number - changes each maintenance release
- Build is the build number - changes every release and is different on Mac and Windows for the same release version
- Patch is always zero
6.47 Maintenance Release
Version: 6.47.952.0
Platform: Windows
Date: December 20, 2022
Fixes
- Various stability fixes and performance improvements
6.46 Maintenance Release
Version: 6.46.946.0
Platform: Windows
Date: September 13, 2022
Fixes
- Fixed some minor high contrast and dark mode issues
- Fixed issue running second instance of app when Edge WebView2 104 is installed
- Various stability fixes and performance improvements
6.45 Maintenance Release
Version: 6.45.942.0
Platform: Windows
Date: July 4, 2022
Fixes
- Various stability fixes and performance improvements
6.44 Maintenance Release
Version: 6.44.938.0
Platform: Windows
Date: March 31, 2022
Fixes
- Various stability fixes and performance improvements
- Aligned robots.txt processing with Googlebot and latest IETF draft
6.43 Maintenance Release
Version: 6.43.934.0
Platform: Windows
Date: December 28, 2021
Fixes
- Various stability fixes and performance improvements
6.42 Maintenance Release
Version: 6.42.924.0
Platform: Windows
Date: October 30, 2021
Fixes
- Various stability fixes and performance improvements
6.41 Maintenance Release
Version: 6.41.914.0
Platform: Windows
Date: July 30, 2021
New Features
- Improved SVG graphics
Fixes
- Various stability fixes and performance improvements
6.40 Maintenance Release
Version: 6.40.904.0
Platform: Windows
Date: January 31, 2021
New Features
- Align meta refresh parsing with HTML Standard
- User interface updated to match Mac version
- Improved app appearance on high DPI displays
- Improved appearance in Windows high contrast mode
- Added support for Chromium WebView2 (https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/webview2/)
- Improved map styles with SVG rendering
- Added SVG map export
- Now uses same EULA as SortSite
- Trial is now limited to scanning 100 pages to match SortSite
- Updated file format (PowerMapper 5 cannot read files saved by PowerMapper 6)
Fixes
- Various stability fixes and performance improvements
5.39 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.39.884.0
Platform: Windows
Date: November 6, 2020
Fixes
- Fixed out of memory issue affecting some sites
- Handle deprecated HTML5 encodings like Windows-1252
- Various stability fixes and performance improvements
5.38 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.38.880.0
Platform: Windows
Date: July 31, 2020
New Features
- Align meta refresh parsing with HTML Standard
Fixes
- Adding a link block for a single resource on a CDN sometimes blocked all resources on the CDN
- Various stability fixes and performance improvements
5.37 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.37.874.0
Platform: Windows
Date: May 31, 2020
New Features
- Link extraction from sitemap.xml
- Improved link extraction from DOM
Fixes
- Various stability fixes and performance improvements
5.36 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.36.866.0
Platform: Windows
Date: January 31, 2020
Fixes
- Various stability fixes and performance improvements
5.35 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.35.860.0
Platform: Windows
Date: October 31, 2019
Fixes
- Bring robots.txt processing into alignment with draft RFC
- Various stability fixes and performance improvements
5.34 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.34.854.0 unsupported
Platform: Windows
Date: July 29, 2019
Fixes
- Various stability fixes and performance improvements
5.33 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.33.842.0 unsupported
Platform: Windows
Date: April 30, 2019
Fixes
- Flash SWF is disabled by default in preparation for Flash end of life in 2020
- Various stability fixes and performance improvements
5.32 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.32.838.0 unsupported
Platform: Windows
Date: February 14, 2019
New Features
- Updated scheduler in Pro edition with improved Windows 10 support
Fixes
- Various stability fixes and performance improvements
5.31 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.31.830.0 unsupported
Platform: Windows
Date: November 23, 2018
Fixes
- Various stability fixes and performance improvements
5.30 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.30.822.0 unsupported
Platform: Windows
Date: July 31, 2018
Fixes
- Server Busy dialog sometimes appeared on Windows 10 when basic authentication login window was shown
- Various stability fixes
5.29 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.29.818.0 unsupported
Platform: Windows
Date: May 14, 2018
New Features
- Better MIME sniffing when Content-Type header missing
Fixes
- Handle invalid UTF-8 sequences in Chinese PDF documents
- Various stability fixes
5.28 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.28.810.0 unsupported
Platform: Windows
Date: December 31, 2017
Fixes
- Various stability fixes
5.27 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.27.804.0 unsupported
Platform: Windows
Date: October 3, 2017
New Features
- Improved display of URLs in Arabic and Hebrew
- Improved scan performance
Fixes
- Aligned robots.txt processing with Google's robots.txt specification
- Various stability fixes
5.26 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.26.790.0 unsupported
Platform: Windows
Date: July 31, 2017
New Features
- Various performance enhancements
Fixes
- Better detection of duplicate pages
- Various stability fixes
5.25 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.25.784.0 unsupported
Platform: Windows
Date: April 28, 2017
New Features
- Various performance enhancements
Fixes
- Various stability fixes
5.24 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.24.780.0 unsupported
Platform: Windows
Date: December 27, 2016
New Features
- Various performance enhancements
Fixes
- Various stability fixes
5.23 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.23.772.0 unsupported
Platform: Windows
Date: October 2, 2016
New Features
- Export filename now based on site name
Fixes
- Various stability fixes
- Didn't reset all settings in Factory Reset
- Fixed layout problem with high resolution displays on Windows
5.22 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.22.764.0 unsupported
Platform: Windows
Date: July 5, 2016
New Features
- Reduced memory requirements on large sites
Fixes
- Various stability fixes
5.21 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.21.754.0 unsupported
Platform: Windows
Date: March 30, 2016
New Features
- Much faster starting app
Fixes
- Blocked links were ignored for 301 and 302 redirects
- Various stability fixes
5.20 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.20.748.0 unsupported
Platform: Windows
Date: January 28, 2016
New Features
- Changed default graphics for 3D Buttons style
Fixes
- Was unable to scan pages that returned '201 Created' HTTP code instead of '200 OK'
- Display warning if user tries to check Welcome page of application
- Various stability fixes
5.19 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.19.736.0 unsupported
Platform: Windows
Date: October 2, 2015
Fixes
- Fixed drawing problem with 3D buttons style on large sites
- Problem extracting links from pages with invalid HEAD element
- Cancelling a scan on a large site could take a long time
5.18 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.18.726.0 unsupported
Platform: Windows
Date: June 30, 2015
New Features
- Converted all site maps to HTML5
Fixes
- Better help if site is blocked due to robots.txt
- Fixed problem with some JavaScript links being case folded
- Fixed hex entity handling in links
5.17 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.17.718.0 unsupported
Platform: Windows
Date: March 30, 2015
New Features
- Higher quality (24-bit) thumbnails
- Changed default map font to Arial
- Added more control over applying JavaScript DOM changes to Options window
- Removed obsolete Java applet and CGI scripts options (can be done via blocked links)
Fixes
- Redirected pages display redirected URL instead of original URL
- Improvements handling AngularJS sites
5.16 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.16.704.0 unsupported
Platform: Windows
Date: December 30, 2014
New Features
- Various minor UI enhancements
Fixes
- Fixed issue extracting links from some invalid HTML files
- Treat
http://www.example.comandhttp://www.example.com:80as same site, buthttp://www.example.com:888as different site
5.15 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.15.690.0 unsupported
Platform: Windows
Date: September 17, 2014
Fixes
- Fixed crash when drawing some large maps
5.14 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.14.678.0 unsupported
Platform: Windows
Date: May 22, 2014
New Features
- Added Factory Reset button to Options window
- Added Additional URLs box to the New window
- End of scan notification if app is in background
- Modernized default user agent string
5.13 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.13.668.0 unsupported
Platform: Windows
Date: February 14, 2014
New Features
- Added Open in New Window to right-click menu
- Added Check for Updates command to Help menu
Fixes
- Stability improvements
5.12 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.12.642.0 unsupported
Platform: Windows
Date: September 19, 2013
New Features
- Much faster scanning some sites that were very slow to scan in previous versions
Fixes
- Allow long user agent strings to be pasted into Options window
- Treat robots.txt 401s and 403s the same as 404s
- Problem detecting broken links on sites that alias /page-name to /page-name/ and redirect from one to the other
- Crash when printing empty map with no pages
5.11 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.11.618.0 unsupported
Platform: Windows
Date: May 29, 2013
New Features
- Can now pause scans
- Exported HTML files are saved into a newly created sub-directory
Fixes
- Prevent PC going to sleep during a scan (unless battery low)
- Page title ignored if preceded by script tag containing script tag embedded in a JavaScript string
- Thousands separator in imported CSVs was interpreted as decimal point on some locale settings
- Handle old-style Mac OS 9 line endings in imported CSVs (Linux and macOS line endings already worked)
- Improved stability in low memory conditions
5.10 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.10.598.0 unsupported
Platform: Windows
Date: February 4, 2013
New Features
- Map structuring algorithm now uses site navigation bar as a structuring hint
Fixes
- Links with query parameters sometimes not extracted correctly from PDF files
- Performance enhancements scanning large documents
5.9 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.9.592.0 unsupported
Platform: Windows
Date: November 14, 2012
New Features
- Performance improvements (33% faster scanning some sites)
Fixes
- Fixed GDI resources leak in 3D Buttons style
- Fixed excessive memory use on some sites
5.8 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.8.564.0 unsupported
Platform: Windows
Date: June 12, 2012
New Features
- Improved short title generation
Fixes
- Switching tabs in options window added duplicate items to user agent dropdown
- Fixed poor performance scanning PDFs with hundreds of pages
5.7 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.7.540.0 unsupported
Platform: Windows
Date: February 29, 2012
New Features
- Added View Source command to right click menu
Fixes
- Handle zero sized thumbnail images caused by buggy display driver
- Avoid blank thumbnail images on pages that only contain Flash movies or META refresh directives
5.6 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.6.524.0 unsupported
Platform: Windows
Date: November 18, 2011
New Features
- Added "Zoom" command to toolbar
Fixes
- 100% CPU processing HTML files containing very large base 64 XML data islands
- Missing down arrow graphic on View Schedule page
- F1 key in New and about windows displayed an error message
- URLs typed into New window now added to recent URLs list
5.5 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.5.500.0 unsupported
Platform: Windows
Date: August 5, 2011
New Features
- Added "Copy Link Address" command to context menu
- Added auto complete for forms
Fixes
- Handle pages that specify different charsets in HTTP headers and META tags
- Excel Link Report export now much faster
- Some CSV exports contained duplicate rows for page titles with unusual characters like the TM symbol
5.4 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.4.460.0 unsupported
Platform: Windows
Date: April 2, 2011
New Features
- Allow custom user agent to be specified
Fixes
- Trim whitespace from end of blocked links
- Surround URLs in quotes in exported CSV files
- Handle UTF-8 byte order mark when HTML charset not specified
- Don't include 404 links in exported Google Sitemaps
- Fix scrolling issue when expanding Tree View and Tree View 2.0 styles
5.3 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.3.432.0 unsupported
Platform: Windows
Date: December 1, 2010
New Features
- Font style and color settings for all map styles
- Add notes export to Excel CSV export formats
- Now reports list of pages blocked by robots.txt
Fixes
- Some deep pages not displayed on Table Map and Yehaa map styles
5.2 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.2.418.0 unsupported
Platform: Windows
Date: August 31, 2010
New Features
- Added support for Lotus Domino
- Added Edit Notes and Delete Page commands to popup menu
- Added custom thumbnail size setting
- Added "Automatic Login" option
- Added support for Windows-1256 (Arabic) and Windows-1255, ISO-8859-8 (Hebrew) charsets
- Navigation tree expansion state now saved
- Export and import page titles to CSV (allows batch editing in Excel)
- Moved Back to Map command to Back button dropdown
Fixes
- Drag and drop sometimes behaved unexpectedly in 5.1
- Disable unsupported export formats rather than warning they're unsupported
- Print always disabled for maps with pathnames containing accented characters
- Some changes not flagged as changes until map refreshed when Manual Refresh was set
5.1 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.1.362.0 unsupported
Platform: Windows
Date: March 14, 2010
New Features
- Enhanced printing options (Margins and Fit Each Page)
- Added color coding to Thermometer graph style
- Print Preview defaults to showing 2 pages side by side
- Allow #anchor links to be blocked
Fixes
- Trial version issue exporting CSV files from sites with robots.txt file
- Issue importing some XML files
- Intermittent I/O pending error message when doing two Save As commands in a row
- Include PDFs in Google sitemaps
- Stability improvements
- Pages that timed out during download showed as OK in Page Issues window
- Not following links in some SWF files
- Print layout problems in some map styles
- Page header M of N pages wrong when range of pages printed
- Page count in Site Properties tab wrong if site has redirected pages
5.0 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.0.340.0 unsupported
Platform: Windows
Date: December 1, 2009
New Features
- Additional map styles
- Import analytics or SEO data from XML or CSV
- Visualize analytics or SEO data using DataMaps
- Add notes to maps
- Extract links from Flash sites
- Resizable page thumbnails
- Support for non-European character sets including Japanese, Chinese and Korean
- User interface improvements including customizable toolbars and new map wizard
- Export meta data
- Support for Windows 7
Fixes
- Much faster making changes to map styles
4.19 Maintenance Release
Version: 4.19.296.0 unsupported
Platform: Windows
Date: May 29, 2009
New Features
- Enhanced Excel Site Tree export
- Enhanced Find Page command
- Improved site structuring
Fixes
- Problem printing Thumb Tree and Electrum 2.0 styles
- Double dot appearing in export file names
4.18 Maintenance Release
Version: 4.18.290.0 unsupported
Platform: Windows
Date: April 15, 2009
New Features
- Highlight pages on map when clicking on pages in outline view
- Added Excel Link Report export
- Added Excel Site Tree export
Fixes
- Excess use of disk space scanning large sites
- "Not enough system resources" message on some machines
- Crash on sites with malformed A tag on home page
4.17 Maintenance Release
Version: 4.17.260.0 unsupported
Platform: Windows
Date: December 9, 2008
New Features
- Highlight pages on map when clicking on pages in outline view
- Added Excel Link Report export
- Added Excel Site Tree export
Fixes
- Improved stability in low memory conditions
- Treat /news.htm as parent of /news/aug.htm
- Fixed hang affecting some sites
4.16 Maintenance Release
Version: 4.16.252.0 unsupported
Platform: Windows
Date: October 22, 2008
New Features
- Find Page command on right click menu
- Use site directory structure to guide map structure
Fixes
- Accented French/German characters were dropped in CSV export
- HEAD start tag was missing on some map styles (though it's optional in HTML4)
- Reduced memory consumption when drawing large maps
- Prevent saving a SortSite report over a PowerMapper site map
- Fixed a race condition when logging was turned off while writing to log
6.47 Maintenance Release
Version: 6.47.1952.0
Platform: macOS
Date: February 6, 2023
Fixes
- Various stability fixes and performance improvements
6.46 Maintenance Release
Version: 6.46.1942.0
Platform: macOS
Date: October 11, 2022
Fixes
- Fixed some minor high contrast and dark mode issues
- Various stability fixes and performance improvements
6.45 Maintenance Release
Version: 6.45.1940.0
Platform: macOS
Date: July 20, 2022
Fixes
- Various stability fixes and performance improvements
6.44 Maintenance Release
Version: 6.44.1936.0
Platform: macOS
Date: May 26, 2022
Fixes
- Aligned robots.txt processing with Googlebot and latest IETF draft
- Implemented support for mapping sites with non-persistent authentication cookies
- Various stability fixes and performance improvements
6.43 Maintenance Release
Version: 6.43.1934.0
Platform: macOS
Date: January 31, 2021
Fixes
- Various stability fixes and performance improvements
6.42 Maintenance Release
Version: 6.42.1926.0
Platform: macOS
Date: November 22, 2021
Fixes
- Print... and Find... didn't work on macOS 11/12
- Various stability fixes and performance improvements
6.41 Maintenance Release
Version: 6.41.1914.0
Platform: macOS
Date: September 16, 2021
New Features
- Improved SVG graphics
Fixes
- Various stability fixes and performance improvements
6.40 Maintenance Release
Version: 6.40.1908.0
Platform: macOS
Date: June 30, 2021
New Features
- Align meta refresh parsing with HTML Standard
- Improved map styles with SVG rendering
- Trial is now limited to scanning 100 pages to match SortSite
- Updated file format (PowerMapper 5 cannot read files saved by PowerMapper 6)
Fixes
- Various stability fixes and performance improvements
5.39 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.39.1886.0
Platform: macOS
Date: November 20, 2020
Fixes
- Various stability fixes and performance improvements
5.38 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.38.1880.0
Platform: macOS
Date: August 26, 2020
New Features
- Align meta refresh parsing with HTML Standard
Fixes
- Adding a link block for a single resource on a CDN sometimes blocked all resources on the CDN
- Various stability fixes and performance improvements
5.37 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.37.1874.0
Platform: macOS
Date: June 27, 2020
New Features
- Link extraction from sitemap.xml
- Improved link extraction from DOM
Fixes
- Various stability fixes and performance improvements
5.36 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.36.1866.0
Platform: macOS
Date: February 10, 2020
Fixes
- Various stability fixes and performance improvements
5.35 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.35.1862.0
Platform: macOS
Date: November 21, 2019
New Features
- Legacy plugins are disabled (no longer supported by Safari/Chrome/Firefox)
Fixes
- Bring robots.txt processing into alignment with draft RFC
- Various stability fixes and performance improvements
5.34 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.34.1854.0
Platform: macOS
Date: August 28, 2019
Fixes
- Various stability fixes and performance improvements
5.33 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.33.1838.0
Platform: macOS
Date: June 11, 2019
Fixes
- Scanning Flash SWF is disabled by default in preparation for Flash end of life in 2020
- Various stability fixes and performance improvements
5.32 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.32.1836.0
Platform: macOS
Date: March 18, 2019
Fixes
- Fix redirects where Content-Type changed during redirect
- Various stability fixes and performance improvements
5.31 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.31.1826.0
Platform: macOS
Date: November 22, 2018
New Features
- Added support for Dark Mode in macOS Mojave (version 10.14)
Fixes
- Fixes for various crashes affecting macOS Mojave (version 10.14)
- Various stability fixes and performance improvements
5.30 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.30.1808.0 unsupported
Platform: macOS
Date: August 6, 2018
Fixes
- Various stability fixes
5.29 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.29.1806.0 unsupported
Platform: macOS
Date: May 17, 2018
New Features
- Better MIME sniffing when Content-Type header missing
Fixes
- Handle invalid UTF-8 sequences in Chinese PDF documents
- Various stability fixes
5.28 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.28.1804.0 unsupported
Platform: macOS
Date: January 22, 2018
Fixes
- Various stability fixes
5.27 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.27.1802.0 unsupported
Platform: macOS
Date: November 9, 2017
New Features
- Improved scan performance
Fixes
- Improved display of URLs in Arabic and Hebrew
- Aligned robots.txt processing with Google's robots.txt specification
- Better speech output in VoiceOver
- Various stability fixes
5.26 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.26.1794.0 unsupported
Platform: macOS
Date: August 2, 2017
New Features
- Various performance enhancements
Fixes
- Various stability fixes
- Better detection of duplicate pages
5.25 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.25.1790.0 unsupported
Platform: macOS
Date: May 18, 2017
New Features
- Various performance enhancements
- Import command
- Find command
- Redesigned welcome page
Fixes
- Various stability fixes
5.2 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.2.1780.0 unsupported
Platform: macOS
Date: January 27, 2017
New Features
- Various performance enhancements
Fixes
- Various stability fixes
5.1 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.1.1772.0 unsupported
Platform: macOS
Date: October 25, 2016
New Features
- Edit map window allows maps to be re-arranged
Fixes
- Various stability fixes
- Didn't reset all settings in Factory Reset
5.0 Maintenance Release
Version: 5.0.1768.0 unsupported
Platform: macOS
Date: July 14, 2016
New Features
- Reduced memory requirements on large sites
Fixes
- Various stability fixes
4.0 Maintenance Release
Version: 4.0.1756.0 unsupported
Platform: macOS
Date: April 8, 2016
New Features
- Support Mac system proxy settings
Fixes
- Blocked links were ignored for 301 and 302 redirects
- Various stability fixes
3.0 Maintenance Release
Version: 3.0.1750.0 unsupported
Platform: macOS
Date: January 28, 2016
New Features
- Much faster starting
- Replaced Breakpad crash reporter with Crashpad
Fixes
- Was unable to scan pages that returned '201 Created' HTTP code instead of '200 OK'
- Display warning if user tries to check Welcome page of application
- Various stability fixes
2.0 Maintenance Release
Version: 2.0.1740.0 unsupported
Platform: macOS
Date: November 17, 2015
Features
- Can scan sites using HTTP basic authentication.
- Functionally identical to PowerMapper 5.19 for Windows with the exception of some map customization options.
Fixes
- Fixed drawing problem with 3D buttons style on large sites.
- Problem extracting links from pages with invalid HEAD section.
- Cancelling a scan on a large site could take a long time.
- Fixed a crash on OS X 10.11.
- Fixed a problem where site map sometimes wasn't displayed.
1.0 Maintenance Release
Version: 1.0.1734.0 unsupported
Platform: macOS
Date: August 16, 2015
Features
- Initial release for Mac OS X.
- Functionally identical to PowerMapper 5.18 for Windows with the exception of some map customization options.